The object of Minesweeper

• The object of Minesweeper is to find all the mines without uncovering any of them.

To play Minesweeper

• You can uncover a square by left-clicking it. If you uncover a mine, you lose the game.
• If a number appears on a square, it indicates how many mines are in the eight squares that surround the numbered one.
• To mark a square you suspect contains a mine, right-click it.

Strategies and tips

• When you have marked all mines around a numbered square, you can quickly uncover all empty squares around it by left-clicking that square again.
• Look for common patterns in numbers, which often indicate a corresponding pattern of mines. For example, the pattern 2-3-2 at the edge of a group of uncovered squares indicates a row of three mines next to the three numbers.